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Reflections of a Second Life
Reflecting on my transformative experience in Second Life, detailing how it provided social connectivity, creative freedom, and personal growth. From discovering gameplay opportunities to building a thriving business, facing challenges, including financial stress and personal conflict. Read More
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Recovering the Dedric Mauriac Flickr Archive
After finally regaining access to my long-dormant Dedric Mauriac Flickr account, I raced to recover more than 1,500 Second Life snapshots before platform changes erased them. A custom API script and digital archaeology helped restore the archive. Read More
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Puzzles, Ribbons, Faith, and History
Many happenings: Ribbon cutting, Freemasons, Robbie Burns, Braille, Cancer Free Sister, Faith, Laser Puzzles, Tokens for hot meals, Street Organ, Research, Digitization of Historical Records, Rural Broadband, and Samuels Public Library. Read More
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Relay For Life: Team Meeting Notes
During a Relay for Life team meeting in Second Life, volunteers coordinated donation kiosks, vendor placements, and event ideas to raise funds for cancer research. The discussion balanced humor and logistics while organizing grassroots fundraising efforts across the virtual world. Read More
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Blue Hair #12: Vista Troubles, Relay Wins, and Voice in SL
Dedric returns with a new Vista laptop and a podcasting-software headache, then dives into photoreal avatar skins, Relay for Life results topping $120,000, Voice arriving in Second Life, and a wave of sculpty tools—plus wikis, job posts, and Shop On-Rez. Read More
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Blue Hair #8: Paradise Blankets, Face Animations, and Matzohenge
Dedric Mauriac explores in-world photography, book-making with the THiNC Printing Press, Paradise Blanket scene-rezzing, Relay for Life concerts, emotional avatar faces, self-configuring doors, and a surreal Matzohenge house—revealing how Second Life blended art, tech, and playful absurdity. Read More
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Blue Hair #7: Robot Mazes, Vendor Networks, and the RFL Promo
Dedric Mauriac explores IBM’s Code Station robots, releases his microphone system, explains how creators sold goods through SLX, SLB, Apez, JEVN, and AubreTEC, rides a multi-sim subway, redesigns his store, and enters a Relay for Life promo contest. Read More
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Blue Hair #6: Relay Teams, Talking Mics, and the Flickr Wall
Dedric Mauriac forms a Relay for Life team, builds long-range microphones for Cisco events, creates a learning center on laggy land, scripts sewer access and restaurant menus, and launches a Flickr-powered SLideViewer—showing how Second Life was becoming a programmable media world. Read More